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Phoenix61

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3. I'm about 20 miles from where hurricane Michael made landfall.

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Sun May 18, 2025, 05:07 PM

May 18

There is no way to describe the devastation and there is no way a state can manage a relief effort of that size. The logistics alone for getting supplies into the area takes a mind boggling amount of coordination. Like where do you put enough power poles and wire to rewire an entire county? How do you coordinate the power crews coming in from all over the SE? People gripe about FEMA all the time but when it came to coordinating everything they were pretty darn amazing.

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